Mathematician predicts labs will abandon IMO-level math as AI makes it 'too easy'
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-06
Mathematician Alex Kontorovich recounts that AlphaProof came within one point of an IMO gold medal two summers ago, half a dozen labs claimed gold-level performance last summer — and he predicts zero systems will bother this year, because IMO has become 'too easy' for AI and nobody cares anymore. He extends the prediction: next summer labs will solve zero major math problems, returning them to professors and grad students. The reposter adds that interest will shift toward applied mathematics — using AI to model real-world problems with constraints — while compute remains the real bottleneck.
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